Melissa General receives Emerging Leadership Award from Ontario Arts Council

Friday, December 14, 2018

Earlier this year, Melissa General, an OCAD U Photography alumna and the Manager of the university’s Indigenous Visual Culture Student Centre & Services, was selected to receive an emerging leadership award from the Ontario Arts Council. The award recognizes a rising Indigenous artist or arts professional with a $2,500 prize, with the recipient being nominated annually by the OAC’s annual Indigenous Arts Award winner, who was Nadya Kwandibens in 2018. Melissa received her honour at the OAC offices in a small ceremony on Tuesday, December 4. 

Melissa is Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, audio, video and installation. Her practice is focused on her home territory of Six Nations and the concepts of memory, language and land. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and shows in Ontario, Manitoba and Québec. She is also a contributor to the national billboard project Resilience, curated by Lee-Ann Martin. In addition to her BFA in Photography from OCAD U, Melissa holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from York University.

Congratulations Melissa! 

Poster: 
Carolyn Gloude, Awards Officer, Ontario Arts Council, Melissa General and Erika Iserhoff, Indigenous Culture Fund Grants Facilit

Melissa General wins Emerging Leadership award from Ontario Arts Council

Melissa General
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Melissa General, an OCAD U Photography alumna and the Manager of the university’s Indigenous Visual Culture Student Centre & Services, has been selected to receive an emerging leadership award from the Ontario Arts Council. The award recognizes a rising Indigenous artist or arts professional with a $2,500 prize, with the recipient being nominated annually by the OAC’s annual Indigenous Arts Award winner, who was Nadya Kwandibens in 2018.

Melissa is Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, audio, video and installation. Her practice is focused on her home territory of Six Nations and the concepts of memory, language and land. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and shows in Ontario, Manitoba and Québec. She is also a contributor to the national billboard project Resilience, curated by Lee-Ann Martin. In addition to her BFA in Photography from OCAD U, Melissa holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from York University.

Congratulations Melissa! 

 

Assembly Required presents: Out Of The Cold: Exploring Canadian Design

out of the cold
Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 10:30pm

Canadian design has often not been recognized as more than this idea of the Great White North. However, there is more to be acknowledged than just these romanticized notions of the country's natural landscape. This panel will be a discussion on the material culture of Canada both historically and at present, and will discuss the innovative work that Canadian designers have accomplished at home and overseas.

Funded by the Ontario Arts Council.

Venue & Address: 
XPACE Cultural Centre 58 Ossington Ave., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Figure Ground - Christina Sealey Exhibition

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 2:00pm to Saturday, November 21, 2015 - 10:00pm

Please join Illustrator Christina Sealey on Friday, October 16th from 6 -9 pm for the public reception of her exhibition, Figure•Ground at the Boarding House Gallery in Guelph.

This show officially opens next Tuesday, October 7th and will run until November 21st. This is a unique show for me in that it will feature her figurative work from 1998 - 2015, covering nearly 20 years of her painting practice. The exhibition includes generous loans from a number of private collections and from the public gallery, the Varley Art Gallery of Markham. This exhibition was also generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Venue & Address: 
Boarding House Gallery 6 Dublin Street South Guelph, ON
A woman on stage wearing a costume

Evan Tapper receives OAC grant to create animated bio of John Hirsch

Friday, August 22, 2014 - 4:00am

Continuing Studies Manager Evan Tapper has received an Ontario Arts Council grant to create My Dybbuk, an experimental animated documentary. The project will tell the incredible life story of the late Canadian theatre legend John Hirsch through hand-drawn rotoscope animation. In 1973, Hirsch directed The Dybbuk at the Manitoba Theatre Centre, a play based on Jewish folklore. The animation echoes the supernatural narrative structure of the play where the ghost of John Hirsch suddenly appears to Evan, 41 years later to inspire a new generation of artists.

We’re in the Library

Barbara Astman, The Fossil Book (detail), 2013.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 5:00am to Sunday, January 19, 2014 - 5:00am

Opening: Tuesday, November 19, 5 – 9 p.m.

Sara Angelucci, Barbara Astman, Adam David Brown, Michelle Gay, Ido Govrin, Vid Ingelevics, Jon Sasaki

In November 2013, the Koffler Gallery opens its highly anticipated new downtown venue at Artscape Youngplace with its inaugural exhibition – We’re in the Library.

School libraries are portals to new worlds of enchantment where some of our first journeys of discovery and self-awareness begin. Seven Toronto artists have been invited to create works responding to the history of the Koffler Gallery’s new exhibition space, formerly the library of the Shaw Street Public School. Exploring the notion of the school library as a place of exploration, intellectual inquiry, and social interaction, the artists articulate singular ways of engagement with the site’s context. With projects ranging from print to sculptural installation, sound, video and new technologies, they revisit childhood literary favourites and cultural icons, revel in the mysteries of encyclopedia illustrations, examine the communication of knowledge, and subvert idealized notions of education.

Curator: Mona Filip

The Koffler Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Image: Barbara Astman, The Fossil Book (detail), 2013.

Free

Venue & Address: 
Koffler Gallery, Artscape Youngplace 180 Shaw Street Toronto, Ontario